Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shut down?
Logos of US social networks Facebook, Instagram and mobile messaging service WhatsApp on the screens of a smartphone and a tablet in Toulouse, southwestern France. Major social media services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were hit by a massive outage on October 4, 2021. AFP
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What you need to know:
It's not yet clear how or why, but Facebook's routers essentially sent a message to the internet announcing that the company's servers no longer existed.
